Switzerland

One of the most wonderful countries on earth...

I made a fun video about our trip but I received these notices every time I tried to upload it to Vimeo, Youtube, Facebook.

We can’t post your video "Switzerland" just yet because our Copyright Match system detected third-party copyrighted material

Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country because it could contain music from UMG, for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA.

Apparently the Swiss yodeling song that I bought on iTunes is not allowed in Germany. They forbid a lot of Youtube and Netflix videos too.  I'll try to post the video next time I leave the country.  If you don't hear from me, you'll know I'm in a German jail. :)

Paris!

I LOVED going back to my mission area with a former companion, Carol Harris Zabriskie. Her two daughters and two granddaughters came along. Here's what I put together from our photos:

Paris video

My favorite was visiting the Versailles apartment where Carol and I had served. 38 years later there are still sister missionaries there!  1977:

2015:

I wasn't sure how Rand would feel about going to Paris since he had never expressed an interest when we'd been in Europe before.  So we watched the "Is Paris Burning?" movie before we went to whet his appetite. He likes WWII history and it was about the conclusion of the 4-year German occupation and almost-destruction of Paris. It has historic footage mixed in with the movie, but the newer movie "Diplomacy" is better. However here's the happy ending of:

Is Paris Burning?

Hey Rysers finally posted something!

 What's up in Frankfurt?

Our darling Primary class of 4-year-olds. Yes, we let them paint in their church clothes

and dig up "golden plates" in the garden.

Each of these children is at least bilingual. English plus French, Russian, Spanish, and/or German. The leaders were inspired to call us because one girl only speaks German and Rand is one of a few missionaries who can translate for and speak to her.

 At a Mission Presidents' Seminar we heard a wonderful message from Elder Bednar. His wife, Susan, was happy to pose for a picture with us. I didn't want to embarrass him so I just sneaked one.

Holladay South Stake Missionaries - Craig and Lois Stevens the AMA couple in England plus Anne Marie and Mark Pace, MP in Barcelona. 

Great to see old friends...

... and new friends. Liz Edmunds, the Food Nanny, willingly did refreshments with/for me last month.  Check out her show:

Watch here

Our walking group took a new route and stopped at the Anne Frank home.

Our first house guests - Jill and James Kennedy and Emily Myers. 

Sisters Freschnect and Packer came for a week from Kiev, Ukraine. Sister Packer is the mission wife and needed medical treatment that couldn't be done in Ukraine. We found a great Thai restaurant thanks to Margit Ezard whom we also adore.